LONGLISTED IN COMMONWEALTH SHORT STORY PRIZE 2025
WIGLEAF TOP 50 List of Very Small Fictions (June 30 2025) selected “Passion and Wildcard” (first published in The Sunlight Press) in the Top 50!
WIGLEAF TOP 50 List of Very Small Fictions (June 30 2025) selected 3 stories of mine (first published in The Rumpus & The Cincinnati Review) among the longlist!!!
WIGLEAF TOP 50 List of Very Small Fictions (June 15 2023) selected DARK MATTER (FLASH PROSE first published in CONTRARY MAGAZINE) in the Top 50!
Emerson Review nominated “How to Know the Dollar in Delhi” for the Pushcart Prize on November 20, 2024
The Ilanot Review nominated “Kakiya Wears a Half-Sleeved Shirt When It Snows” for the Best Microfiction 2025 anthology.
TALON REVIEW nominated “Summer Rubies” for the Pushcart Prize 2025
BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2024 Anthology: Maryland Literary Review Press; Inclusion “Of Foliage”; originally published in Microlit Almanac
BEST MICROFICTION 2024 Anthology: “In Leaping”; originally published in The Citron Review, July 28, 2024
Selection in CLMP Reading List for Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month; May 2, 2024
Best of the Net 2024 nomination for one-sentence story titled “Season of Silence” (McNeese Review BOUDIN)
Best of the Net 2025 nomination for “What do I Tell You Sunderban Bagh” (Eastern Iowa Review)
Wigleaf Top 50 2024 Longlisted
Pattnaik, Mandira, “Towards Zero,” Alan Squire Publishing (January, 2023)
Best of the Net 2024 nomination for “There are Four Versions of You, All True” (Midway Journal); also in “Theorems & Hypothesis” (Ghost City Press, microchapbook)
Bacopa Literary Review 2024 Contest
Flash Fiction Honorable Mention
Inclusion in Best Microfiction Anthology 2024
READ ‘In Leaping’ HERE
Inclusion in Best Small Fiction Anthology 2024 (Alt Current Press; Ed. Amber Sparks)
Nomination for “Of Foliage” (Microlit Almanac)
Best Microfiction Nomination 2024 for “In Leaping” (The Citron Review)
Pushcart Prize for “A Moon is a Moon is a Moon” (Writers Resist; June 2023)
Best Spiritual Literature 2023 for “Crocodile Teeth” (Parentheses Journal; forthcoming)
Best of the Net 2023 for “Of Foliage” (Microlit Almanac)
Best of the Net 2023 for “Collector of Souls Comes to the Shadow Shop” (Gone Lawn)
Best Small Fiction Nomination 2023 for “There are Actually Four Versions of You, All True” (Midway Journal)
Best Small Fiction Nomination 2023 for “Signedora” (Quarterly West)
Best Small Fiction Nomination 2022 for “How to Wear Your Eyes on Your Wedding” (Peatsmoke Journal)
and… Nominated for Pushcart Prize 2022
AND… included in Selected Works 2003-2023 of 20 Contrary Years
Pushcart Prize 2021 nomination for “Unknot” (Nunum, Canada)
Best Microfiction nomination 2021 for “Unknot” (Nunum, Canada)
Best Small Fictions 2022 nomination for PANJI PARADIGM (RUBY LITERARY)
Best Microfiction 2022 nomination for “Angry Vikings Beating Drums” (Flash Frontier New Zealand)
Best of the Net 2022 nomination for ACROSS THE WALL (POETRY; MIDDLE HOUSE REVIEW)
Best Microfictions 2021 nomination for “PORCELLANIDAE” (Reckon Review)
Best Microfiction and Best of the Net 2022 nomination for “Kaala Paani” (Flashback Fiction)
BEST MICROFICTIONS 2022 nomination for “London SW1A 1AA, United Kingdom, 1982″ (FULL HOUSE LITERARY)
SWAMP ILANOT REVIEW Included in Best Small Fictions 2021
Pushcart Prize and Best Microfiction 2021 nomination for “EMBRYONIC STAR ” (SPLONK)
BEST MICROFICTION 2021 nomination for “WHEN IT FREEZES, YOU REALIZE THE SUGAR MAPLE TREE HOLDS ITS SNOW ” (ATLAS AND ALICE)
PUSHCART PRIZE 2021 nomination for “FOOTPRINTS ON THE SAND” (Timber Journal) NOMINATED
Best of the Net 2020 nomination for “Semicolon” (The Citron Review)
PUSHCART PRIZE 2021 nomination for “LOVE POEM TO THE PEEPUL” (FROM THE FARTHER TREES)
Honorable Mention in CRAFT Flash Contest 2020
LATER PUBLISHED IN DASH JOURNAL: PRINT
READ THE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT VERSION HERE
Litro Summer Contest 2021: HIGHLY COMMENDED — “A BOY, A MOTHER, NATURE”
